Mike Rowe, host of the television show "Dirty Jobs," wrote a post on his blog in which he explained that Donald Trump won the presidency because "millions of disgusted Americans" were "desperate for real change."

Rowe began his post by saying that "Dirty Jobs" didn't stay on the air because it was "gross, or irreverent, or funny, or silly, or smart, or terribly clever. Dirty Jobs succeeded because it was authentic."

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The television personality and CEO of mikeroweWORKS said that he knows people are "freaked out" and admitted that he is worried too, but not because of who we elected.

"I'm worried because millions of people now seem to believe that Trump supporters are racist, xenophobic, and uneducated misogynists," Rowe said. "I’m worried because despising our candidates publicly is very different than despising the people who vote for them."

Rowe continued on, in part, with this:

"I don’t think Donald Trump won by tapping into America’s “racist underbelly,” and I don’t think Hillary lost because she’s a woman. I think a majority of people who voted in this election did so in spite of their many misgivings about the character of both candidates. That’s why it’s very dangerous to argue that Clinton supporters condone lying under oath and obstructing justice. Just as it’s equally dangerous to suggest a Trump supporter condones gross generalizations about foreigners and women.

These two candidates were the choices we gave ourselves, and each came with a heaping helping of vulgarity and impropriety. Yeah, it was dirty job for sure, but the winner was NOT decided by a racist and craven nation – it was decided by millions of disgusted Americans desperate for real change. The people did not want a politician. The people wanted to be seen. Donald Trump convinced those people that he could see them. Hillary Clinton did not."

Rowe also talked about people 'unfriending' anyone who planned on voting for Trump.

"Honestly, that was disheartening," he wrote. "Who tosses away a friendship over an election?"

In closing, Rowe said that the kind of recovery Trump is promising "will require a workforce that's properly trained and sufficiently enthused about the opportunities at hand. At the moment, we do not have that work force in place."